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Originally Posted by Z-man
A problem with that logic is that if a file corruption occurs at one site, that corruption automatically propegates to backup files! Granted, this issue can be somewhat remedied by using some type of version management tool, but often a data corruption issue crops its ugly head the day after the non-corrupted backup version is expired. I've been this countless times - and my line of work is SAN/Storage management.
-Z-man.
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You are right this is a risk. For most folks that don't back up anything, losing all of their data, photos, music, etc. is a larger risk. I use an external hard drive and Time Machine locally, and it has saved my bacon more than once. I also have a NAS drive on the home network, and copy files to that drive, and when we go on holiday put it into a fire safe. Belts, suspenders and glue.